SDCC 2015 is full of news for Warcraft--and we haven't even gotten to the film panel! Legendary Films has a stunning booth with life-sized Orgrim Doomhammer and King Llane, and released a Virtual Reality app letting players fly over Stormwind! In addition, several entertainment sites conducted interviews with director Duncan Jones--and he's interested in a Warcraft trilogy.

The Legendary Film panel will take place Saturday, July 11th at 2:30 p.m. in Hall H.

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Legendary Films Preview Night Gallery

Legendary Films has released a preview night gallery, featuring highlights from Warcraft, and Twitter has been sharing photos as well.

Life-sized Orgrim Doomhammer and King Llane were revealed, as well as a variety of props and weapons.

Warcraft: The Skies of Azeroth VR App

The Legendary VR App was unveiled last night! In this app, you can fly around Stormwind on a gryphon.

SOAR THROUGH THE EPIC WORLD OF THE WARCRAFT MOVIE

Prepare yourself for a spectacular first look at the cinematic envisioning of Warcraft. Climb aboard the back of the mythic Gryphon and ride the skies over Azeroth: a fantasy realm as dangerous as it is beautiful. Developed by ILM

Warcraft Movie Interviews

What I suggested was, look, what makes WARCRAFT on a game side work so well is that players choose to be on either side and they tell the story from their perspective, so you have to be able to empathize with both sides. And my pitch was, Look, let’s tell a war story where you show heroes on both sides and how they come into conflict because of a situation that they can’t find a way to avoid. So, it really is a war story. This could not be based on WARCRAFT. I think the fundamentals that make it work on a story level come out of something that’s not dependent on the game it just happens to fit beautifully with what the game is.

On making the film accessible to both gaming and non-gaming audiences:

The film is designed to be for an audience who may not have played the game or may know nothing about the game. It’s a film and it works in its own right...I think the absolute key ingredient right from the start was to work as closely with Blizzard as we could…making sure that we kept the DNA of what made the game work and stuck to the law as much as we could. Now, there are always gonna be moments where we’re gonna have to take license to make things work in a linear narrative for the duration of a film, but we have done our absolute best, and I think we’ve been very successful in keeping to the law of WARCRAFT and at the same time making it accessible for people who don’t know anything about WARCRAFT.

On whether or not he'd like to make more WARCRAFT films, including a possible trilogy:

I really hope that the audience is gonna be out there and is gonna come out and support this film. I would love to get to do another one. There’s 11 months between now and when this film comes out. I’m hoping to sneak in a little indie/sci-fi thing before this comes out...If we had the chance to do a trilogy and do three films, I think we know, in rough blocks, what this-what those three movies would be. It works as a standalone. It would absolutely lend itself to a continuing story for three films, because that’s how we kinda planned it out.

Speaking at the Legendary booth during San Diego Comic-Con this evening, director Duncan Jones revealed Warcraft is about 10 VFX shots from being complete, he’s confident it’s good, and would love to come back to direct a sequel. Maybe even two.

Jones also unveiled WETA-designed sculptures of several main characters in the Warcraft film, as well as the new Legendary VR experience Warcraft: The Skies of Azeroth, which is available now for Android and iOS.

But that’s not all. Since Warcraft is almost done, but won’t be released until June 2016, Jones said he hopes he can get away from the world of Warcraft for a few months to squeeze in his passion project, the sci-fi film Mute. It’s a Blade Runner-esque movie he’s been trying to get made for years. Once he’s finished that, the Warcraft movie will be out and he’ll turn his attention to a sequel. He and the Blizzard crew have reportedly talked about the stories for two more movies.

On how close the movie is to being done: That number is down to about eight or nine shots left . Our scoring is done, and we're doing some final mixing. We are doing tweaks to the color grade, but we pretty much have a complete film now.

On the importance of SDCC for movies: It is an exponentially growing event for genre films.

On what else will be revealed about the Warcraft movie at SDCC: There is an awful lot of stuff going on. I am very unsure how much I can talk about. They want to make the reveals as surprising as possible. We do have the panel with most of our main cast there, and we are going to be showing ... something that should be a great taster of what to expect from the film.

Comments

Comment by Zygos

on 2015-07-09T09:57:49-05:00

They could go do a trilogy and do several standalone movies based on some of the characters, as well. This is a franchise, lore-wise, that has the possibility to be epic on the scale of the MCU, Star Wars, or even LoTR.

Comment by Morwo

on 2015-07-09T10:07:01-05:00

the Legendary VR App is not available to me in germany. apple does not allow me to access us market for reason. nor does the app itself offered anywhere outside us.

Comment by Hilane

Comment by perculia

on 2015-07-09T11:26:16-05:00

That's the video we linked in the post earlier, which was taken down due to copyright infringement.

Comment by Hilane

on 2015-07-09T11:28:14-05:00

seriously? Have you seen the movie? what has WoD got to do with it?Oh wait you are a troll...no sry my bad you are a PvP'er.(no offence to the once that actually can make a sentence without it being HATE).

Comment by Hilane

on 2015-07-09T11:29:59-05:00

@perculia my apologies i am not well versed on copyright stuff.

Comment by perculia

on 2015-07-09T11:33:50-05:00

Not your fault--we had it up too (saw it linked on io9). The pictures seem fine though, they're not as sharp as the Google Cardboard version at SDCC but we took them on our phones.

Comment by Hilane

on 2015-07-09T11:39:03-05:00

@Perculia saw it on Blizzard watch, posted in the comments section by someone, It looks GREAT. Funny enough you cant watch it on youtube anymore but the video in the comments still works. The internet baffles me.

Comment by darkelemental1

on 2015-07-09T11:58:12-05:00

"On the importance of SDCC for movies: It is an exponentially growing event for genre films."

This line saddens me. Just further shows how the intention of Comic Con as a gathering place for people to talk about and show off their interests free from the rest of society belittling and shaming them into yet another over glorified Hollywood advertising event with more red carpets and less and less space for the little guy.

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Comment by Maxwelldemonic

... So they'll spend production time on some cheesy VR app but not on the content we've already paid for. Good to know.

Comment by XargonDragon

on 2015-07-09T14:07:06-05:00

... So they'll spend production time on some cheesy VR app but not on the content we've already paid for. Good to know.

The VR app is made by Legendary, not Blizzard.

Comment by Mountaholic

on 2015-07-09T15:41:00-05:00

OMG the Hype! Thank You WoWhead for covering this :D i may not of ever found it XD thank you so much!<3 everyone at WoWhead you guys work so hard thank you thank you~ loyal fan :)

Comment by izaiphovias

on 2015-07-09T15:43:43-05:00

So... Why is Orgrim not green? I mean, by the time of the first game, when the movie will take place, orcs were already green, even those who didn't drink the blood (like Orgrim) turned green due to the prolonged procimity to fel magic... So, why is he not green there? Will the movie show us some shots from old Draenor, before the corruption?

Comment by Maxwelldemonic

on 2015-07-09T15:53:29-05:00

... So they'll spend production time on some cheesy VR app but not on the content we've already paid for. Good to know.

The VR app is made by Legendary, not Blizzard.

My mistake, I just find it a bit absurd that they're pushing this film so hard when they can't be bothered to properly finish the xpack.

Comment by Venus236

on 2015-07-09T16:15:02-05:00

It must be awesome for the WoW team to have worked on this game for so long and be able to see it in real life now.

Comment by Lomedae

on 2015-07-09T16:27:55-05:00

... So they'll spend production time on some cheesy VR app but not on the content we've already paid for. Good to know.

The VR app is made by Legendary, not Blizzard.

My mistake, I just find it a bit absurd that they're pushing this film so hard when they can't be bothered to properly finish the xpack.

Not as absurd as pouncing on anything, even if Blizzard is not directly involved, to vent your bile about your perceived issues with the MMO. Me thinks you are due a WOWBreak.

Comment by Vermund

on 2015-07-09T16:30:54-05:00

Really hope Legendary doesn't create another BlizzCon fiasco with their panel, where only attendants get to see any footage. The movie is less than a year away. They need a bit more traction for this thing to hype the regular movie buffs as much as it does us.

Comment by QcRoman

on 2015-07-09T17:09:01-05:00

the Legendary VR App is not available to me in germany. apple does not allow me to access us market for reason. nor does the app itself offered anywhere outside us.

It's not only you or Apple. I'm Canadian and using Android devices and I can't install the bloody thing on "any of my devices in this country"